I’ve checked out the Canadian Medical system and I hate to tell you,

but we in America are being told a pack of lies. Their system is very

good for the everyday person. The only ones who are unhappy are those

who want to get rich for providing either health insurance at impossible

prices or those who provide medical care at prices only the rich can afford.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2009/12/c4425.html

OTTAWA, Aug. 12 /CNW Telbec/ - In a last ditch effort to convince

Canadians that the public health care system should be privatized,

Canadian Medical Association (CMA) President Robert Ouellet has

promised to "pull out all the stops" during the association's annual

meeting next week. Trouble is, Dr. Ouellet's mission to "lead the change"

to privatization, is exactly the opposite of what 86% of Canadians want.

A new poll conducted by Nanos Research points to overwhelming

support (86.2%) for strengthening public health care rather than

expanding for-profit services. "With more than eight in ten Canadians

supporting public solutions to make public healthcare stronger, there

is compelling evidence that Canadians across all demographics would

prefer a public over a for-profit healthcare system," said Nik Nanos,

President of Nanos Research. Nanos Research was commissioned on

behalf of the Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) to conduct a random

telephone survey of 1001 Canadians between April 25th and May

3rd. The margin of accuracy for a sample of 1,001 is +/-3.1 percentage

points, 19 times out of 20. As well, the federal government just released

its report: Healthy Canadians - A Federal Report on Comparable Health

Indicators 2008. Its findings identically mirrored the CHC polling results.

In that report, a leading indicator pointed to the fact that, "Most Canadians

(85.2%) aged 15 years and older reported being 'very satisfied' or 'somewhat

satisfied' with the way overall health care services were provided,

unchanged from 2005."

"Throughout our campaign, Canadians have told us they want to keep

our health care system public and to improve it with made-in-Canada

solutions. They also have told us they flat-out reject Dr. Ouellet's

proposal to provide us with American-style two-tier medicine. This poll

certainly underlines that for us. Eighty-six percent is a significant portion

of the population," said Michael McBane, National Coordinator of the

Canadian Health Coalition. "It is striking that Dr. Ouellet could be so

out-of-touch with the pulse of most Canadians."

McBane warned that Dr. Ouellet's latest effort to replace public health

care with a private system uses language that is misleading. "If imported

into Canada, Ouellet's ideas about activity-based funding, 'competition'

and more private delivery would not yield European-style care but instead

would lead us down the road to US-style care. At the CMA's annual meeting

later this month, you will hear Dr. Ouellet talk about 'patient-centered' care

but he really means 'profit-centered' care. He will talk about transformative

health care - which really means transforming a public system to one that

is private. He will also unveil results of a CMA survey that he claims shows

support for his new privatization scheme. In fact, the language used in the

CMA survey was so vague and misleading that its results cannot possible

be interpreted as support for more for-profit medicine."

McBane said that Dr. Ouellet, who owns or manages 5 private, for-profit

diagnostic clinics, has a history of misleading Canadians. Recently, the

CMA president toured Canada touting the merits of what he called the

European model of health care - cobbling together selective pieces of

information from different European systems to lull Canadians into

accepting the idea of more private, for-profit service.

"Dr. Ouellet needs to stop misleading Canadians and start telling them

what he's really up to - privatizing our health care system," said McBane.

"His 'transformational change' agenda is his last kick at the can before

becoming the CMA's past-president. Dr. Ouellet's privatized, for-profit

vision won't solve a single problem of our public health care - and more

importantly, Canadians don't want it. And they've said this loud and clear."

The Canadian Health Coalition is a not-for-profit, non-partisan

organization dedicated to protecting and expanding Canada's public

health system for the benefit of all Canadians.

For further information: Michael McBane, National Coordinator, Canadian

Health Coalition, Tel.: (613) 277-6295, www.medicare.ca

http://www.nupge.ca/node/2486

Canada overwhelmingly supports public health care

,

Nanos Research poll on eve of CMA convention shows that 86%

of Canadians support "public solutions" to make public health

care stronger.

Ottawa (13 Aug. 2009) - A new poll on the eve of the national convention

of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) in Saskatoon shows an

overwhelming 86% level of public support for "public solutions" to

improve Canada's national health care system.

Commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition (CHC), and conducted

by Nanos Research, the poll counters a national survey on privatization

that the CMA is expected to release later in the week as doctors debate

measures to increase the level of for-profit medicine in Canada.

The coalition says it was necessary to carry out the poll because the

CMA poll has been manipulated by "vague and misleading" language

to produce results showing a misleading level of support for privatized

medicine.

"With more than eight in 10 Canadians supporting public solutions to

make public health care stronger, there is compelling evidence that

Canadians across all demographics would prefer a public over a for-profit

health care system," says Nik Nanos, president of Nanos Research.

Nanos, one of Canada's most respected pollsters, surveyed 1,001

Canadians between April 25 and May 3. His poll has a margin of

accuracy of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Direct question

Respondents to the CHC poll were asked the following question:

“Thinking about the future of Canada's public health-care system,

would you support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or oppose

public solutions to make our public health care stronger?”

A total of 86.2% of respondents said they support or somewhat support

public solutions, while 8.2% said they oppose or somewhat oppose the

approach. The balance, 5.7%, said they were unsure.

The results are also in sync with a recent health Canada report entitled

Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators

2008. It found that 85.2% of Canadians were “very satisfied” or “somewhat

satisfied” with health care services overall. That level was unchanged

from 2005, the last time the survey was conducted.

NUPGE

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one

of Canada's largest labour organizations with over 340,000 members.

Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to build a

stronger Canada by ensuring our common wealth is used for the

common good. NUPGE

Notice please that given a chance to choose our form of healthcare the Canadians

shot it down by a 90% margin. I’d say they must see the truth and aren’t foolish

enough to buy into the Health insurance...Medical establishment lies.